Anne Stuart

REVIEW: Moonrise by Anne Stuart

REVIEW: Moonrise by Anne Stuart

Dear Ms. Stuart— When I saw that many of your older titles were finally available as eBooks, I thought I’d check one out. I never know whether one of your books will work for me or not, but the ones that do—Reckless and Black Ice are two of my all-time favorite novels—really do. I picked(…)

REVIEW: Breathless by Anne Stuart

REVIEW: Breathless by Anne Stuart

An Extremely Short and Not So Sweet Review of Anne Stuart’s Breathless in Five Limericks Preceded by a Very, Very Short Synopsis Miranda Rohan, true to her parentage, ruined herself with one bad decision. Though she’s happy in her life away from the ton she feels something lacking in her life. Lucian, Earl of ItTotallyDoesn’tMatter,(…)

REVIEW:  Reckless by Anne Stuart

REVIEW: Reckless by Anne Stuart

Dear Ms. Stuart, Recently, I reviewed your book Ruthless and have been given the honor of doing the same for the second book in your House of Rohan series-’Reckless. If I may be so bold, I would like to address this particular review to you hero, Adrian, Viscount Rohan. Ahem! Adrian, Adrian, Adrian. I can't(…)

REVIEW: Ruthless by Anne Stuart

REVIEW: Ruthless by Anne Stuart

Dear Ms. Stuart: Elinor Harriman is the quintessential elder sister of romance. To wit, she is desperately trying to keep her little family together by protecting, guarding and working herself to the bone. Simultaneously, she is, of course, trying not to let on to her younger, more beautiful sister, Lydia, exactly how desperate their circumstances(…)

REVIEW: Silver Falls by Anne Stuart

REVIEW: Silver Falls by Anne Stuart

Dear Ms. Stuart, ewlywed Rachel Chapman Middleton has been living in her husband’s hometown, the sleepy college hamlet of Silver Falls, Washington, for only a few months when the body of a young woman is discovered. It’s an especially unwelcome shock for Rachel because she married David Middleton, a respected college professor, in large part(…)

REVIEW: Fire and Ice by Anne Stuart

REVIEW: Fire and Ice by Anne Stuart

Dear Ms. Stuart, I was one of many readers impressed with the first novel in your "Ice" series, Black Ice. I sometimes have problems with the power differential between your heroes and heroines, and though Black Ice was no different in that respect, the hero and heroine were nonetheless compelling, as was their relationship. The(…)

REVIEW: Fire and Ice by Anne Stuart

Dear Ms. Stuart, Fire and Ice is the fifth and (if I’m not mistaken) final book in your Ice series, which features the agents of a ruthless spy organization known as the Committee. This one is all about the flamboyant Reno, Taka’s younger cousin. Back in the third book, Ice Blue, Reno, aka Hiromasa Shinoda,(…)

REVIEW: Blind Date from Hell by Anne Stuart

REVIEW: Blind Date from Hell by Anne Stuart

Dear Mrs. Stuart, The description of this novella at Fictionwise caught my attention and induced me to buy it. Too bad that that description has F-all to do with the actual plot. I don’t blame you for that. But it’s lucky for Fictionwise that I enjoyed the story anyway. The actual paranormal elements here are(…)

DUELING REVIEW: Black Ice by Anne Stuart

DUELING REVIEW: Black Ice by Anne Stuart

Dear Ms. Stuart, Black Ice is my favorite of all your books — the ones I’ve read, that is. You have a huge backlist and I have not come anywhere near reading them all, but I’ve read several of your most popular titles, including A Rose at Midnight, To Love a Dark Lord, Moonrise, Nightfall,(…)

REVIEW:  Ice Storm by Anne Stuart

REVIEW: Ice Storm by Anne Stuart

Dear Ms. Stuart, The latest book in your Ice series, Ice Storm, opens with a bang. Literally. In a prologue set sometime in the past, we are introduced to nineteen-year-old the heroine this way: Mary Isobel Curwen had never shot a man before. She stood there, numb, unmoving. She’d never fired a gun before, and(…)

REVIEW:  Ice Storm by Anne Stuart

REVIEW: Ice Storm by Anne Stuart

Dear Mrs. Stuart, I should have known better. After all, I had problems with “Black Ice,” I wasn’t that thrilled with “Cold as Ice” and I wasn’t tempted to try “Ice Blue.” But when Jane sent me the arc for “Ice Storm” I just couldn’t resist hoping that I’d “get” this one better than the(…)

REVIEW:  The Unfortunate Miss Fortunes by Jennifer Crusie, Eileen Dreyer and Anne Stuart

REVIEW: The Unfortunate Miss Fortunes by Jennifer Crusie, Eileen Dreyer and Anne Stuart

Dear Authors: A couple of weeks ago there was a small online furor over the Publishers Weekly review of Jennifer Crusie, Eileen Dreyer, and Anne Stuart‘s collaborative book The Unfortunate Miss Fortunes. The review referred to the book as three novellas, concluding with the hope that “the authors’ next collaboration will be on a single,(…)

REVIEW:  Ice Blue by Anne Stuart

REVIEW: Ice Blue by Anne Stuart

Dear Ms. Stuart, ummer Hawthorne, the heroine of the third book in your Ice series, is the curator for a Los Angeles museum that specializes in Asian art. She is also the owner of a blue ceramic bowl that her Japanese nanny entrusted to Summer just before she died. Summer's self-centered mother belongs to a(…)

REVIEW:  Cold as Ice by Anne Stuart

REVIEW: Cold as Ice by Anne Stuart

Dear Mrs Stuart, Some of your books I love. Some of them I hated. And some that I keep reading despite things which annoyed me. “Cold as Ice” is one of the later. I liked it a lot better when I first finished it but after a week of contemplation, all the little niggles are(…)

REVIEW:  Prince of Swords by Anne Stuart

REVIEW: Prince of Swords by Anne Stuart

Dear Ms. Stuart, This was the first book of yours I read and I’m glad I knew ahead of time that your heroes can be fairly dark. It helped me to like Alastair MacAlpin much more than I would have. He is the famous jewel thief the Cat who steals from the rich, often while(…)